Michael Latini as Puppeteer in “How to Train Your Dragon Live!”

Tyler School of Art graduate Michael Latini is currently behind the scenes of ”How to Train Your Dragon Live! Spectacular.” Since his graduation in 2001, Latini has been working as a puppeteer. He toured the country as a lead puppeteer in the show “Walking with Dinosaurs, the Arena Spectacular,” as well as working on the Philadelphia Zoo and Jim Henson collaboration “X-tinksun,” and touring as the Bear in Disney’s “Bear in the Big Blue House.”

“How to Train Your Dragon Live!” is based off of the animated film that was released in 2010. The dragons in the show are not computerized, but instead need to be controlled by up to three people. While they are similar to the puppets used in “Walking with Dinosaurs,” these puppets have a greater range of motion and the ability to breathe fire. The show premieres at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on September 12 and will run until the 16.

Original article can be found at http://www.nj.com/indulge/index.ssf/2012/09/temple_grad_michael_latini_is.html

Annual Student Show Closing Reception & Mixer

Join us Thursday, September 29 from 6 – 9 pm for the Annual Student Show Closing Reception and Student Mixer.  Students from PAFA, UArts and Moore College of Art have been invited to come and see all the wonderful work Tyler students have done!  We’ll have a large spread of food for your enjoyment, jazz music, and other goodies!

Wonder What’s Going On at Temple Rome?

Temple Rome sent me these two announcements so you can see what’s going on in Rome this spring!

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Tyler Alumna Organizes Performance Show

Can the public accept the female body beyond private erotic fantasy? The exhibition title, Diaristic Indulgences (taken from a line in Carolee Schneemann’s Interior Scroll and Kitch’s Last Meal), refers to the exploration of the discomfort in the physical reality of the body that permeates everyday life.  The artists participating in Diaristic Indulgences find inspiration in the works of Judy Chicago, Valie Export, Carolee Schneemann, Cindy Sherman, Martha Rosler, Lynda Bengalis, Ana Mendieta, Karen Finley, and Marina Abramovic and explore notions of femininity, voyeurism, sexuality, and gender. The artists in this show expand on the path paved for them and reconsider today’s deep-rooted understandings of the physical body in relationship to the social body.

Curated by Tyler Alumna Angela Washko. Participating Artists: Hannah Heilmann, Ann Hirsch, Georges Negri, Sunita Prasad, Nathaniel Sullivan, Alison Ward, Angela Washko, Chester Zecca.  One night only:  Saturday, February 19, 7 PM at the Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St Long Island City, NY 11101

Accessible by subway:

Queensboro Plaza + 39 Av Beebe Av (N, W only)

Queens Plaza

21st St. Queens Bridge

The Flux gallery is located on street level near several wheelchair-accessible subway stops.

 

Tyler MFA Students Exhibit in NYC

Select works by 2nd Year MFA Students
Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Curated by Candice Madey
February 9 – April 9, 2011

Hunter College Times Square Gallery

450 West 41st Street, New York, New York
Opening reception: Friday, February 11, 6 – 9 pm

Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Master of Fine Arts program presents the exhibition Vagabondage at the 2011 College Art Association (CAA) New York Area MFA Exhibition. Curated by Candice Madey of On Stellar Rays, Vagabondage features the work of seven MFA candidates: Loo Bain, Daryl Bergman, Amber Cowan, Emily Davidson, Emily Rooney, Dan Schein, and Lindsay Wraga. Working in a variety of materials including painting, sculpture, glass, fiber, photography and video, Madey writes “works in Vagabondage embody the spirit of the vagabond. Myth and meaning is found on the periphery and only with the knowledge gained from a solitary quest…These works present a similar duality: alluding to social constructs and cultural rituals, yet simultaneously pushing against and evading such limitations.”

Vagabondage, along with the exhibitions of fellow New York area MFA programs, will be on view from February 9 through April 9, 2011 at the Hunter College Times Square Gallery at 450 West 41st Street, New York, New York. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 1 – 6 pm. An opening reception will take place on Friday, February 11, from 6 – 9 pm.

About the curator
Candice Madey is currently the director and owner of On Stellar Rays, a NY-based gallery with an interest in the intersection of and disruptions between performance and other media. Formerly she was director of Mireille Mosler, Ltd. in New York, and an independent curator and art consultant. She has 12 years of experience in the art world, including positions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Christie’s, and galleries in the Midwest and in New York. She has a Masters in Business Administration, and Bachelors degrees in Art History and French from the Ohio State University.

About the Tyler School of Art MFA 2011 Thesis Exhibitions Series
Tyler School of Art Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibitions are the culmination of each student’s two-year career at Tyler and represents, for many, their first professional one-person exhibition. The series includes students from all Tyler departments and an array of media: painting, sculpture, glass, printmaking, metals/jewelry/cad-cam, graphic and interactive design, fibers, photography, ceramics, and more. From March 16 – May 14, 2011, each week features several exhibitions at Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, located at 12th and Norris Streets in Philadelphia, PA. A complete listing of exhibitions click here.

Exhibitions at Temple Gallery are supported in part by the Friends of Temple Gallery, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Tyler School of Art Alumni Association.

a STOöP event!

Please join us for a STOöP event!

SCULPTURE AS PUBLIC PRACTICE

An Open Forum about Art, Site, and Agency. With Special Guest John Hawke

Wednesday, February 9th, 6 PM

Painting Studios, 3rd Floor, Tyler School of Art

For a look at John Hawke’s work go to www.johnhawke.com

Teach Town Hall Meeting

Interested in teaching? Don’t miss the Teach Town Hall Meeting with U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Governor Ed Rendell, Mayor Michael Nutter, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, AETN CEO Abbe Raven and Tony Danza on Monday, October 25th at 11 a.m. at the Baptist Temple. The TEACH campaign is an initiative of the United States Department of Education designed to raise awareness of the teaching profession and get a new generation of teachers to join the ones who are already making a difference in the classroom. Teaching is a rewarding and challenging profession where you can make a lasting impact. You can have a positive influence on students, schools, and communities now and into the future. Please attend to learn more! Presented by A&E Network, Comcast, Temple University and the U.S Department of Education. Preregistration is required. To register, click here.

A Meeting of the Waters for PAFA and Tyler

Earlier this week I had a rather enjoyable experience at PAFA’s Wednesday Art-at-Lunch event, at which Prof. Jonathan Wallis of Moore College of Art spoke about Salvador Dalí’s under treated post-surrealist work.  In particular, Wallis focused on one of Dalí’s dramatic and expectedly cryptic religious paintings, The Ecumenical Council, 1960.  This was a fascinating talk in which Wallis looked very closely at the minute details of Dalí’s painting, and interpreting the painting in much the same way as Dalí conceived his work — the “paranoiac-critical method” — opened up a number of interpretive avenues that were collectively suggestive of the workings of Dali’s mind (as well as the workings of a passionate and intellectually inventive art historian’s mind).  The contagious energy with which Wallis shared his discoveries gave a clear example of the sense of adventure that art history can offer.  Keep an eye out for Wallis’ upcoming book on Dalí’s late work.

I was also pleased to see that this fall’s lecture series at PAFA seems to be somewhat of a showcase for the fruits of Tyler.  Wallis is a Tyler alum (2004 Ph.D.), as was the previous week’s speaker, Roxana Pérez-Méndez (2002 MFA), whose work had been on view at PAFA since last May.  Even if you missed her installation, which just came down last week, or Wallis’ talk on Dalí, PAFA’s Art-at-Lunch lecture series should still be a destination for Tyler folks.  Coming up on Nov. 3 is my own art historical talk on African American sculpture at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, and on tap for next week (Oct. 6) are Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof, founders of the heavily consulted artblog (http://THEartblog.org), and no strangers to Tyler.  Check out PAFA’s fall lineup for yourself at http://www.pafa.org/aal.  Free for everyone.  Grab a crêpe and hop on the Broad Street Line for a one-hour mid-week, mid-day respite at the confluence of two rivers.

Fall BFA Lottery Scheduled!

The fall BFA Lottery will be held on Thursday, September 9 at 11:00 am in the Exhibitions Conference Room.  All students who plan to graduate with a BFA either Fall 2010 or Spring 2011 are eligible to participate in the lottery for an exhibit space for a BFA show.  Shows are scheduled from Wednesday October 13 through Wednesday, December 8, and each runs for one week.  Install on Tuesday, shows run Wednesday though Saturday, and deinstall on Sunday and Monday.  Students who will graduate Spring 2011 and do NOT wish to show in the fall may wait until the spring lottery–this lottery is only for exhibit space during the fall semester.  Students with questions should contact Kari Scott, Interim Student Life Coordinator, at miss.kari@temple.edu.

Robot T Shirts For Sale

We are selling Wee Wally Wonk t-shirts for $8 to raise funds for the Tyler Block Party (aka Tyler’s Greatest Hits). This event will take place on Tuesday May 4th from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.  in the green courtyard. Interested folks can contact William Haughery at haughery@gmail.com to purchase.
We will also sell t-shirts at our table in the lobby on Tuesday and Thursday where we will also advertise the school-wide event.